Andy Warhol: Sublime Superficiality
Michael Angelo Tata
ISBN-13:
978-0-9789902-3-7
art
theory/philosophy
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Release Date: October 2010
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United States
Reviews
"In his incisive work, Michael Angelo Tata does something like real,
complex justice to the implications of Warhol's life and thought. I think
you'll find that a really remarkable voice emerges from Tata's writing. If
Judge Judy read Hegel!" ~ Eve Sedgwick
"Tata renders Warhol philosophically anew - and that is no small feat among the seriality of Warholia."~ Nicholas Ruiz III
"To whomever Michael Angelo Tata might have applied his literary brilliance, the result would have been dazzling. In this, I was the fortunate target. There is not a writing I am aware of that comes as close as his to a creditable analysis of The Transfiguration of the Commonplace. His own thesis in the curiously titled Andy Warhol, Sublime Superficiality, has been missed by everyone who has written about Warhol. The book is full of wit and learning, and deserves to be read by humanists everywhere." ~ Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor Emeritus, Columbia University
Product
Description
My idea is that the Romantic notion of the sublime reaches its apex and
terminus in Warhol, whose greatest contribution to the tradition of aesthetics
has been not so much his ending of art but instead his invention of the
postmodern or “POMO” sublime as the outpost and outer limit
of sublimity.
About
the Author
Michael Angelo Tata's essays appear in the recent collections
Literature of New York and Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays
on Meena Alexander, and his work on Daniel Paul Schreber is included
in the anthology Neurology and Modernity.